Contents and information about the winter solstice

Winter solstice, also known as solstice, winter festival, child year, etc. It has both natural and humanistic connotations. It is not only an important solar term among the 24 solar terms, but also a traditional folk ancestor worship festival in China.

The winter solstice solar term is in the cold November of the lunar calendar, in which the "solstice" is the ultimate meaning. The gas stored in winter is so extreme, the weather is extremely cold and the weather is coldest. When the yang starts, it will force the weather to be cold; The sun moves to the southernmost tip, so the days are the shortest and the nights are the longest. The ancients believed that from this day on, the yang of heaven and earth began to flourish, that is, the next cycle began, and the yang of heaven and earth rose to the winter solstice, so it was a "good day"

Winter solstice is an important solar term in the China lunar calendar, and it is also a traditional festival of the Chinese nation. Lu even said that winter is as big as a year, which shows that the ancients attached importance to winter. People think that the winter solstice is a natural transformation of Yin and Yang and a blessing from heaven. There are customs around the winter solstice, and there are customs of slaughtering sheep, eating jiaozi and eating wonton in the northern region.

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The ancients always regarded the solstice of winter as another New Year, and even left a meaningful poem. Lu You, a poet in the Song Dynasty, sang in The Solstice of Winter in My Heart: Today, when the sun is facing south, our door is silent. If you are poor, you will have a light holiday, and when you are old, you will be afraid of getting old. This shows how many people are praying for happiness and longevity during the winter solstice.

On the solstice of winter, people have the custom of "counting nine". From the solstice of winter, every nine days is regarded as a "nine", * * * 998 1 day, and after 8 1 day, it will enter spring. There is a catchy "99 Songs": 1929 did not shoot; Walking on the ice in 3949; 5969 see willows along the river; 79 rivers open 89 geese; 99 plus 19, plowing cattle everywhere.